A new playground, housing for the homeless and restoring a historical building: all these projects received support at Town Meeting on Monday night with Community Preservation Act funds.

Voters approved $55,250 for the restoration of the Great Neck Union Chapel on Main Street, $75,000 for an engineering study for a playground at Lopes Field in Onset and $635,000 for the the purchase of conservation land and housing for the homeless.

All of the projects will use Community Preservation Act funds, which is collected from a 3 percent surcharge on property tax.

According to co-chair of the Community Preservation Committee Sandy Slavin, there is currently $1.3 million in funds that can only be used to preserve open space, for historic preservation, for recreation, or affordable housing.

Great Neck Union Chapel restoration

The Great Neck Union Chapel, which is owned by the Wareham Historical Society, is located next to the Old Methodist Meeting House.

“This is the third building that the Historical Society will be renovating at the 495 complex,” said Community Preservation Committee Co-Chair Sandy Slavin, referring to a cluster of buildings owned by the Historical Society.

The original proposal mandated a preservation restriction in addition to the restoration of the chapel. Committee member George Barrett asked that the restriction be made optional in order to relieve the Historical Society from “unnecessary hardship.”

The restriction is a legal agreement that prevents the alteration or demolition of a historic building, but getting one would cost money. Barrett noted it would be unnecessary because the Historical Society is prevented from selling any of the buildings for development already.

Voters approved both the item and the amendment.

Leonard C. Lopes playground in Onset

A new playground is being spearheaded by a new group, known as the Wareham Community for Outdoor Recreation.

DaLiza Cardoza, who is president of the group, said it wants to create more recreation opportunities in town starting with the playground. The playground will be community-built, involving many volunteers to help raise funds, gather materials and then build it over the course of six days in Wareham's case.

“I want the people that live here now to be proud because they are a part of something that we all did together, and for our children to see how great working as a group can be,” said Cardoza.

A 2011 graduate of Wareham High School, Cardoza said the group has an aggressive schedule for building the new playground. She hopes to break ground in October 2017. Fundraisers and private donations will pay for the rest of the cost. There is no estimate on a final cost at this time.

Housing for the homeless and conservation land

The Wareham Land Trust and Father Bill’s & MainSpring teamed up to purchase 950 Main St. in West Wareham, which includes eight acres of land along the Weweantic River and a four-unit apartment building on the remaining two acres.

Turning Point, which is a program operated by the Wareham Area Committee for the Homeless that provides services to the homeless and near-homeless, would place individuals in the apartments.

According to Pastor David Shaw of the Emmanuel Church of the Nazarene, who serves as Turning Point’s chairman of the board, the apartment building will house six people among the two, two-bedroom units and two, one-bedroom units.

The total cost of the project is nearly $700,000, half of which would go toward the purchase of the land and the other half to purchase the house.

The project has already received funding from other sources including grants totaling $32,500 from Eastern Bank, the Community Economic Development Authority and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Wareham Housing Trust awarded $100,000, and the Buzzards Bay Watershed Municipal Minigrant Program awarded $35,000.